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The curriculum in the digital age
Steven Fawkes, Policy Adviser
BBC Learning & Interactive
[email protected]
The BBC
 independent of Government
 established by Charter, reviewed by
Government (DCMS)
 Public Service
 commercial arm - BBC Worldwide
 provision for 4 Nations of UK
Learning audiences
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Primary schools
Secondary schools
Colleges
Adults
(in all 4 Nations of UK)
BBC RaW
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/
Schools curricula
 England:
 National Curriculum
 Wales
 National Curriculum
 Dept. for Education
and Skills, QCA
 Welsh priorities
(language, history etc.)
 Welsh Assembly,
ACCAC
Schools curricula
 Scotland:
 National Guidelines
 Northern Ireland:
 National Curriculum
 Scottish Executive,
LTS, SQA
Dept. for Education NI,
CCEA
Interested bodies, projects and
policies
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www.becta.org.uk
www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
www.teachernet.org.uk
www.teachers.tv
 Connecting the UK, the Digital Strategy
(DTI and Cabinet Office) - parents and digital divide
 Extended Schools
 DfES e-strategy / ICT in schools
 QCA Futures
Harnessing technology: Transforming
Learning and Children’s Services
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Transform teaching and learning ..
Engage ‘hard to reach’ learners ..
Build an open accessible system ..
Achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness..
 Priority to provide
A common digital infrastructure to support
transformation and reform
 We need better digital resources ..
We must support innovation in the market
by improving our knowledge of where elearning works particularly well..
And we must keep the curriculum moving, to
take advantage of new methods in all
subject areas, and to keep demanding a
better response from the technology.
BBC Learning strategy
 Responding to national needs , and local
communities
 Supporting formal and informal learning
 Mounting campaigns to encourage action
 Languages Strategy
 www.bbc.co.uk/languages
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/
‘digital curriculum’
 digital context, all schools connected by
2006
 commercial sector response
 ELCs
 DCMS approval and conditions
 ‘Distinctive and complementary’
DCMS conditions
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stimulating, supporting
and reflecting the
diversity of the UK
continual innovation,
distinctiveness from and
complementarity to
services provided by the
commercial sector
not selling or marketing a
commercial VLE or
textbooks to accompany
the service
 not allowing use of ELCs
for purchase of DC
resources
 not covering more than
50% of learning outcomes
 commissioning in distinct
categories – max 22%
core, max 30% non-core,
26% Nations, 22% minority
 publishing an outline plan
for 5 years at least 15
months before the launch
of the service, and learning
outcomes 12 months
before launch
 reference to Curriculum
Online, and to alternative
sources of supply, for
which ELCs are available
to schools, in promotion of
the Digital Curriculum
 monitoring by the BBC
Governors of
implementation of the
service
 review of the service by
the Secretary of State
within two years of the
launch of the service
 OJEC process
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissio
ning/dcp/ojec_front.shtml
‘digital curriculum’
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Broadband offering
Learner-centred
Launch January 2006
Branded October 2005 :
BBC Jam
 Not accessible outside UK
User Generated content
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21CC
Broadband library
Creative Archive
Blast
Who do you think you are?
World War II
Picture of Britain
BBC Learning Projects
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/21cc/
 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/broadband/
 http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/the_bbcs
_plans/index.html
 www.bbc.co.uk/blast
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/index.sht
ml
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/